Phylogenetic positions of Glaucophyta, green plants (Archaeplastida) and Haptophyta (Chromalveolata) as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 872-880

  Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a   Maruyama, Shinichiro ^a   Matsuzaki, Motomichi ^b   Nakada, Takashi ^c   Kato, Syou ^a   Misawa, Kazuharu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

"Super" plant kingdom; Archaeplastida; Chromalveolata; Eukaryote evolution; Glaucophyta; Green plants; Haptophyta; Long branch attraction; Nuclear genes; Phylogeny; Primary photosynthetic eukaryotes; Short branch

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLATA; ARCHAEPLASTIDA; CHROMALVEOLATA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; OTUS; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOPILES; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

ALVEOLATA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; RED ALGA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGAE, RED; ALVEOLATA; BAYES THEOREM; CELL NUCLEUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 73149111994     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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